Monday, 28 August 2017

“Can a Secretary of State Throw a President Under the Bus?”

So asks Rich Lowry on the SecState Tillerson’s dissociation of himself from his boss on the race thing. Which brings to mind what I wrote in May about speculated administration personnel changes:

A shake-up this big, this early would be unprecedented. To repeat it in another six months would be proof that Donny himself is unfit to be president. He would become hostage to his new team. I’m not saying that’s bad, depending on the team.

The departures since then have been too uncoordinated to be called a shake-up—even the dysfunction is chaotic!—but the net result is the same. They indicate Donny’s inability to make things work. The replacements have been hired by the same man, but a man even more desperate after his earlier failures. The firings and hirings hollow out his presidency.

Meanwhile, Lowry also noted that Donny’s made himself hostage to GOP senators as well.